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This set of practical guidelines aims to inform policymakers, social partners and practitioners in the Southern Mediterranean countries about organizing, implementing, managing, and evaluating effective work-based learning (WBL) programs for young people, including making it inclusive of young women. It proposes guidelines for government, social partners, [technical and vocational education and training] TVET institutions, workplaces, and individuals to achieve this goal. Six sets of factors were found to influence and shape the provision of WBL experiences, their organization, accessibility and implementation: (1) legal and institutional governance arrangements (i.e., government mandates, laws and regulations etc.); (2) social partnerships (i.e., the engagement of employers, unions, and professional bodies, locally, regionally and nationally); (3) kinds and scale of workplaces (i.e. the predominance of small-to-medium and micro-businesses comprising workplaces in these countries); (4) funding arrangements (e.g. sharing of costs and access to reimbursements); (5) TVET provisions (i.e., relevance of curriculum, quality of educators, links with industry, attractiveness of qualifications, alignment with enterprise needs); and (6) societal views shaping how young people, their parents, and employers come to value and participate in TVET.

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This report aims to inform policymakers and practitioners in the Arab region and other countries and agencies supporting the development of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) about what steps might be taken by the government, social partnerships, TVET training institutions, private and public sector workplaces, and to organise, implement, manage, and evaluate effective [work-based learning] WBL programmes targeting young people. The report is mainly informed by country reports from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Oman and Tunisia. These practical guidelines have been developed under the Youth Employment in the Mediterranean project (YEM) which is a three-year regional initiative launched by UNESCO and implemented in collaboration with eight Member States in the period of 2018 to 2020. The project is funded by the European Union and aims to improve skills anticipation systems and promote TVET to strengthen youth employment and encourage entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region.

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This report is based on eight country case studies and seeks to inform policymakers and practitioners in the Arab States, including private sector and civil society about how to design and manage effective work-based learning (WBL) programmes targeting young people. In addition, this report seeks to provide current information on the state of WBL in the region by examining the national contexts, nature and extent of WBL, policies and legislations, employer and employee organizations, resources to improve the quality of WBL programs, funding, and data on performance of WBL on employment, productivity, growth, and sustainable development. The report also examines WBL as a vector for access to TVET for disadvantaged groups including young women.

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